The New Public Art
The New Public Art
Collectivity and Activism in Mexico since the 1980s
Texas University Press
ISBN: 9781477327623
Pub:
2023 September 12
$45.00 USD
Breve descripción (SPA)
Ensayos sobre el surgimiento de proyectos de arte comunitario y antimonumentos en México desde la década de 1980. En The New Public Art, Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, junto con varios académicos, artistas y activistas, analiza el surgimiento de proyectos de arte centrados en la comunidad, desde el cine colectivo hasta la danza y el teatro fuera del escenario, y la creación de anti- monumentos que han redefinido qué es el arte público y cómo la gente se ha comprometido con él en todo el país desde la década de 1980.
Breve descrição (POR)
Ensaios sobre o surgimento de projetos de arte comunitária e antimonumentos no México desde a década de 1980. Em The New Public Art, Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, juntamente com vários acadêmicos, artistas e ativistas, discute o surgimento de projetos de arte com foco na comunidade, de projetos coletivos cinema à dança e ao teatro fora do palco, e a criação de antimonumentos que redefiniram o que é arte pública e como as pessoas se envolvem com ela em todo o país desde os anos 1980.
Full description (ENG)
Essays on the rise of community-focused art projects and anti-monuments in Mexico since the 1980s.
Mexico has long been lauded and studied for its post-revolutionary public art, but recent artistic practices have raised questions about how public art is created and for whom it is intended. In The New Public Art, Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, together with a number of scholars, artists, and activists, looks at the rise of community-focused art projects, from collective cinema to off-stage dance and theatre, and the creation of anti-monuments that have redefined what public art is and how people have engaged with it across the country since the 1980s.
The New Public Art investigates the reemergence of collective practices in response to privatization, individualism, and alienating violence. Focusing on the intersection of art, politics, and notions of public participation and belonging, contributors argue that a new, non-state-led understanding of "the public" came into being in Mexico between the mid-1980s and the late 2010s. During this period, community-based public art bore witness to the human costs of abuses of state and economic power while proposing alternative forms of artistic creation, activism, and cultural organization.
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